| the-pi-guy said: 1) Everyone is going to make different suggestions, and a lot of those things probably would have made a change, but no one "knows" what would have worked. Unless someone has an interdimensional portal where we can peek at an identical universe where those exact things happened, or they've perfectly figured out how to simulate politics with AI, it's all going to be educated guesses. 2) Personally I think it was always going to be an uphill battle, especially because people don't feel good about the economy. 3) This is a big issue I've had with a lot of left wing rhetoric. Something doesn't need to be the last straw to be bad; and there's always the chance that if it doesn't end up being that bad, then people will turn on you because they think you lied to them. A lot of the struggles we're seeing today are the result of decades of policy changes, and propaganda. |
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Primaries. Primaries are an excellent indicator. There are people on the right who swore by DeSantis, this included big names who supported him like Ben Shapiro, and I also thought Trump is going to struggle against him, on paper, it seemed only reasonable that he would. Primaries proved DeSantis never stood a chance.
The DNC messed up terribly, I get why people feel like there was not much that could've been differently, but we need to admit the DNC messed up. I was not happy with the way Kamala came to be the nominee, but I saw the donations, the polls, the online enthusiasm (turned to be a bubble) and I thought yeah, any candidate but Biden would do. I was terribly wrong, maybe a stress test would've made a difference. There was a way to "know" slightly more than what we know, the DNC chose not to and the democratic base had no choice but to feel and propel optimism towards Kamala, who did her job perfectly and ran a good campaign, non of this is her fault.
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Agree, been the USA recently, I was shocked by the price at the grocery stores and fast food chains, and I live in the UK...... trust me it takes a lot for us to be shocked by prices. I should've known that Americans might be similarly shocked.
The problem is that a lot of this inflation is based on "price gouging" by corporations, and not based on sound economics or threatened profit margins, pure corporate greed, it's so hard to tackle this as a policy maker.
I fucking hate corporates, this is why I was such a big fan of Lina Khan, but LOL, she is so FIRED now. I hope corporations are happy.
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I can only agree, the media cried wolf way too many times, especially in 2016 elections and during Trump's first term, every decision and every statement he made was THE END OF THE WORLD, when a lot if not most of those decisions were a continuation of how previous administrations operated. It was just too much and I like many others developed outrage-fatigue.
